Trouser hanger



1965 H. J- HASSELBACK 3,20

TROUSER HANGER Filed May 18, 1964 FIG. 4

' INVENTOR. 1/" HAROLD J. HASSELBACK.

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ATTORNEYS United States Patent 3,209,967 TROUSER HANGER Harold J.Hasselback, 11223 Brookshire, Grand Blanc, Mich. Filed May 18, 1964,Ser. No. 367,955 1 Claim. (Cl. 223-96) The present invention relates togarment hangers and more particularly to a novel and improved trouserhanger.

Heretofore, in the display and storage of clothes, particularly mensclothes, the conventional type of well-used hanger does not provideeflicient means for gripping the trousers to prevent slippage with theresult that oftentimes the trousers slide and drop off the hanger.

The present invention provides for a simplified and improved garmenthanger, particularly adapted for the hanging of trousers and providing ameans for frictionally retaining the trousers looped over the supportportion of the hanger.

It is another object to provide a novel, simplified and inexpensivetrouser hanger formed from wire and which includes a trouser anchoringmeans assembled therewith or as an integral part thereof.

These and other objects will be seen from the following specificationand claim in conjunction with the appended drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the present trouser hanger.

FIG. 2 is a front elevational view thereof.

FIG. 3 is the front elevational view of a modification.

FIG. 4 is an end elevational view thereof.

It will be understood that the above drawing illustrates merely twopreferred embodiments of the invention, and that other embodiments arecontemplated within the scope of the claim hereafter set forth.

Referring to FIGS. 1, 2, and 3, the present trouser hanger is of a unitconstruction, generally indicated at 11, and includes upright holder 12at its upper end terminating in a reverse curved hook extension 13adapted for positioning over a conventional support rod.

The lower end of holder 12 is curved, as at 14, and terminates in ahorizontally disposed hanger mounting bar 15.

The hanger mounting bar terminates in the reverse curved section 16which in turn terminates in the elongated trouser support bar 17 havinga free end 18. The hanger mounting bar is substantially one-half thelength of the trouser support bar 17. The elongated trouser anchor bar19 substantially is of approximately the same length as said supportbar, and terminates in a free end 23 which substantially underlies thefree end 18 of the trouser support bar, FIG. 3. The other end of theanchor bar 19 is curved upwardly and forms an upright support 20.Support 20 laterally spans end portions of the reversed curved section16 or correspondingly end portions of said support bar and hangermounting bar and is fixedly secured thereto as by the welds 21 and 22.

For illustration in use, a pair of trousers fragmentarily shown inphantom lines at 24 is centrally looped over the trouser support bar 17intermediate its ends and extends downwardly over and to one side of theanchor bar 19.

Anchor bar 19 is closely spaced below support bar 17 and is adapted toresiliently and frictionally engage the looped trousers, as at points 25for retaining the same upon the hanger against slippage.

The present hanger is constructed of a resilient spring steel or similarmaterial. The trouser support bar 17 is flexible but its flexibility islimited by the support 20 which bar 31 is slightly different.

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spans end portions of support bar 17 and hanger mounting bar 15.Similarly, the securing of the anchor bar 19 by its support 20 to thereversed curved section 16 also limits flexing between the bars 17 and19 to furthermore assure frictional mounting and anchoring of thetrousers as shown.

Hanger modification A modified hanger is shown in FIG. 4, includingupright holder 26 with reverse curved book 27 at one end. Its other endterminates in curved portion 28 which merges with hanger mounting bar 29having at one end reversed curved section 30.

The reversed curved section 30 terminates in the support bar 31 in thesame manner as trouser support bar 17 of FIG. 2. The opposite end of thesupport bar 31 is reversed curved at 32 and terminates in the co-planarelongated anchor bar 33 which is closely spaced to the undersurface ofthe support bar and terminates in free end 34.

One advantage of the modification, FIG. 4, is that it is a unitone-piece construction wherein the spring steel wire or similar wire isformed to the shape shown. This eliminates the separate parts and thewelding operation at 21 and 22 associated with the trouser anchor bar 19of FIG. 2. The trousers are hung in approximately the same manner thoughthe method of assembly upon the support Here again the trousers must belooped over the top support bar 31 and pass over and to one side of theanchor bar 33, and gripped therebetween.

Having described my invention, reference should now be had to thefollowing claim.

I claim:

A trouser hanger comprising a horizontally disposed elongated trousersupport bar having a free end; a reverse curved section at its oppositeend terminating in an elongated hanger mounting bar co-planar with andextending over substantially one-half of the length of said support bar;an end portion of said hanger mounting bar being upwardly curved andterminating in an upright holder; a reverse curved hook extension at theupper end of said holder; an elongated trouser anchor bar having a freeend and underlying and of approximately the same length as said supportbar; the relative spacing between said support and anchor barsdecreasing towards their free ends; one end of the anchor bar beingcurved upwardly forming a support laterally spanning end portions ofsaid reversed curved section and secured thereto, the free end andadjacent intermediate portions of said trouser anchor bar beingsubstantially co-planar with said trouser support bar and closely spacedtherefrom; said anchor bar adapted to resiliently and frictionallyretain a pair of trousers looped over said support bar, the securing ofsaid support being inwardly of end portions of said support bar andhanger mounting bar for limiting flexing between said support andmounting bars and for limiting flexing between said support bar andanchor bar.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 617,130 1/99Skinner 223-96 641,669 1/00 Benner et al. 223-96 2,685,991 8/54 Goza eta1. 223- FOREIGN PATENTS 524,041 11/5 3 Belgium. 1,169,361 12/58 France.

12,302 5/02 Great Britain.

JORDAN FRANKLIN, Primary Examiner.

